Detection of excess influenza severity: associating respiratory hospitalization and mortality data with reports of influenza-like illness by primary care physicians.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the use of hearing health care services (hearing testing and hearing aids) by adults aged 21 to 84 years. METHODS:Hearing was tested and medical and hearing health histories were obtained as part of the Beaver Dam Offspring Study between 2005 and 2008 (n = 3285, mean age = 49 years). RESULTS:O...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nash SD,Cruickshanks KJ,Huang GH,Klein BE,Klein R,Nieto FJ,Tweed TS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1984, we investigated the impact of a parental notification statue with judicial bypass procedures in Minnesota. Subjects were interviewed on the day of their abortion at four Minnesota and two Wisconsin clinics. Relatively few were aware of the statute in Minnesota. Parental notification rates were similar in Minn...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Blum RW,Resnick MD,Stark TA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the potential relation of mental ability test scores at age 10 years with alcohol problems and alcohol intake at age 30 years. METHODS:We used data from a prospective observational study involving 8170 members of a birth cohort from Great Britain born in 1970. Data included mental ability scores...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Batty GD,Deary IJ,Schoon I,Emslie C,Hunt K,Gale CR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify payments that involved opioid products from the pharmaceutical industry to physicians. METHODS:We used the Open Payments program database from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify payments involving an opioid to physicians between August 2013 and December 2015. We used medi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hadland SE,Krieger MS,Marshall BDL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the association between walking for exercise and the ratio of total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol in 3,621 adults. After controlling for age, gender, income, body fat, alcohol use, exercise other than walking, and cigarette smoking, adults in the high, moderate, and low duration walking categories were compa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tucker LA,Friedman GM

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To examine exposure to psychological attempts to change a person's gender identity from transgender to cisgender (PACGI) among transgender people in the United States, lifetime and between the years 2010 and 2015, by US state.Methods. We obtained data from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, a cross-sectional ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Turban JL,King D,Reisner SL,Keuroghlian AS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Federal government policy in the United States lacks uniformity, as is indicated by the fact that the Dept. of Defense permits the performance of abortion for medical and mental health reasons, the Office of Economic Opportunity states that no project funds may be used for any surgical procedure intended to result in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Contis G,Hern WM

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidia that were infective for infant mice were subjected to various moist heat treatments and subsequently tested in infant mice for infectivity. Warming from 9 degrees C to 55 degrees C over a period of 15 to 20 minutes neutralized infectivity in calf feces, cecal contents, and ileal scrapings. Inocula held ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Anderson BC

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To assess if historical redlining, the US government's 1930s racially discriminatory grading of neighborhoods' mortgage credit-worthiness, implemented via the federally sponsored Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) color-coded maps, is associated with contemporary risk of preterm birth (< 37 weeks gestati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Krieger N,Van Wye G,Huynh M,Waterman PD,Maduro G,Li W,Gwynn RC,Barbot O,Bassett MT

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A 10-month direct mail campaign was implemented to increase use of emergency medical services via 911 calls and to reduce prehospital delay for individuals experiencing acute myocardial infarction symptoms. METHODS:This prospective, randomized, controlled trial involved three intervention groups (receiving ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meischke H,Dulberg EM,Schaeffer SS,Henwood DK,Larsen MP,Eisenberg MS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed the prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among high school students in Buenos Aires, Argentina. METHODS:Anonymous, self-administered questionnaires were given to 3909 8th and 11th graders in a stratified random sample of 49 public and private schools. The instrument included items fr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Morello P,Duggan A,Adger H Jr,Anthony JC,Joffe A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to determine the prevalence of at-risk drinking using varying alcohol use criteria. METHODS:A period prevalence survey was conducted in 22 primary care practices (n = 19372 adults). RESULTS:The frequency of at-risk alcohol use varied from 7.5% (World Health Organization criteria) to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fleming MF,Manwell LB,Barry KL,Johnson K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based, parent-centered intervention, Familias Unidas, delivered by nonresearch personnel, in preventing substance use (alcohol, illicit drugs) and sex without a condom among Hispanic adolescents. METHODS:A randomized controlled trial (n = 746) evaluated the effec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Estrada Y,Lee TK,Huang S,Tapia MI,Velázquez MR,Martinez MJ,Pantin H,Ocasio MA,Vidot DC,Molleda L,Villamar J,Stepanenko BA,Brown CH,Prado G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The incidence, type, severity, and costs of crash-related injuries requiring hospitalization or resulting in death were compared for helmeted and unhelmeted motorcyclists. METHODS:This was a retrospective cohort study of injured motorcyclists in Washington State in 1989. Motorcycle crash data were linked to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rowland J,Rivara F,Salzberg P,Soderberg R,Maier R,Koepsell T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated whether state-sponsored antitobacco advertisements are associated with reduced adult smoking, and interactions between smoking-related advertising types. METHODS:We measured mean exposure to smoking-related advertisements with television ratings for the top-75 US media markets from 1999 to 2...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Emery S,Kim Y,Choi YK,Szczypka G,Wakefield M,Chaloupka FJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the impact of a tobacco control initiative over 10 years on cessation and prevention. METHODS:We examined 2000-2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System cases of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with systematic tobacco control efforts throughout the decade (El Paso, TX) and 2 comparis...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Taylor T,Cooper TV,Hernandez N,Kelly M,Law J,Colwell B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined worksite health promotion programs, policies, and services to monitor the achievement of the Healthy People 2010 worksite-related goal of 75% of worksites offering a comprehensive worksite health promotion program. METHODS:We conducted a nationally representative, cross-sectional telephone surve...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Linnan L,Bowling M,Childress J,Lindsay G,Blakey C,Pronk S,Wieker S,Royall P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the American Medical Association's Physician Masterfiles (1963-80) and the GINI index of resource concentration as a global measure of changes in the pattern of locational choice, the expectation of a more uniform distribution of physicians is shown to have been met for all major categories of physicia...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McConnel CE,Tobias LA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in strategies to reduce health disparities and the call to enhance their roles in research, little information exists on how to prepare CHWs involved in community-academic initiatives (CAIs). Therefore, the New York University Prevention Research Cent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ruiz Y,Matos S,Kapadia S,Islam N,Cusack A,Kwong S,Trinh-Shevrin C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem with classifying agriculturally related injury is that there is neither a rational nor a comprehensive scheme for grouping incidents into categories describing actual exposures encountered on farms and in agricultural work. Current surveillance systems are unable to differentiate between work tha...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Murphy DJ,Purschwitz M,Mahoney BS,Hoskin AF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain HCV testing practices among US prisons and jails, we conducted a survey study in 2012, consisting of medical directors of all US state prisons and 40 of the largest US jails, that demonstrated a minority of US prisons and jails conduct routine HCV testing. Routine voluntary HCV testing in correctional fac...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Beckwith CG,Kurth AE,Bazerman L,Solomon L,Patry E,Rich JD,Kuo I

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We identified courses of depressive symptoms in an epidemiological sample of emerging adults. METHODS:We used latent class growth modeling to identify trajectories of depressive symptoms measured by the 12-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during a 14-year follow-up of 2825 Ca...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ferro MA,Gorter JW,Boyle MH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. We explored gender role strain (GRS) arising from conflict between homosexuality and cultural conceptions of masculinity among young Black men who have sex with men (MSM). Methods. We conducted a categorical analysis (a qualitative, 3-stage, iterative analysis) of data from studies conducted in 2001 to 200...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fields EL,Bogart LM,Smith KC,Malebranche DJ,Ellen J,Schuster MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine whether an elevated burden of chronic kidney disease is found among disadvantaged groups living in the United States, Australia, and Thailand. METHODS:We used data on participants 35 years or older for whom a valid serum creatinine measurement was available from studies in the United ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White SL,McGeechan K,Jones M,Cass A,Chadban SJ,Polkinghorne KR,Perkovic V,Roderick PJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction is a complex brain disease with frequently overlapping expressions involving nicotine, alcohol, and other drugs. Yet current health care practices, public policies, and national treatment data too often exclude nicotine or address its use as completely separate from other forms of substance use and addiction...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Richter L,Foster SE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We performed a case-control study to determine if participants with herpes zoster had fewer contacts with persons with varicella or zoster, and with young children, to explore the hypothesis that exposure to persons with varicella zoster virus (VZV) results in "immune boosting." METHODS:Participants were pa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Donahue JG,Kieke BA,Gargiullo PM,Jumaan AO,Berger NR,McCauley JS,Belongia EA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The head coaches and players of 103 secondary school football teams in Minnesota were asked to respond to mail questionnaires. Information about injury incidence and concomitant health care provision was elicited. Responses from 3,063 players (81 per cent) yielded a total injury rate of 78 injuries/100 players; 19/100...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gerberich SG,Priest JD,Boen JR,Straub CP,Maxwell RE

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide evaluation of 49 Veterans Administration drug dependence treatment programs was conducted using a sample of 1,655 patients. Their status with reference to seven treatment goals was assessed at admission and again 11 months later to determine change. The following changes were observed: a large decrease in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lorei TW,Francke GN,Harger PS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used data from the Dental Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study to examine whether individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic characteristics were associated with periodontal disease. METHODS:We assessed severe periodontitis with a combination of clinical attachment loss and pocket depth measur...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Borrell LN,Beck JD,Heiss G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We analyzed cervical cancer incidence and mortality data in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women compared with women of other races. METHODS:We improved identification of AI/AN race, cervical cancer incidence, and mortality data using Indian Health Service (IHS) patient records; our analyses focu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Watson M,Benard V,Thomas C,Brayboy A,Paisano R,Becker T

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00